The Delta independent., 1887-03-29
COLORADO CONDENSED.

IN 1uil blast.
A f25, 900 court house is contracted
for at Las Animas.
Denver Prohibitionists are making a
vigorous fight for the city offices.
The Tenderfeet Of Greeley will give
their annual supper on the 3lst
The Centennial Mine at Georgetown
has been sold to st. Louis parties for s2OO,-
600.
A three-year-old daughter of Levi
Cox, Of Aspen, was burned to death last
week.
A fire in W. A. Wizards grocery
store, Pueblo, did damage to the amount of
s., 200.
The Midland hopes to run big ex-
cursion train into Leadville on the Fourth
Of July.
A gas and electric light company
with a capital of $50, 900 has been organized
at Lamar.
High water in the San Juan river is
retarding the completion of the big Monte
yuma tunnel.
DIR. Clarke, the alleged Denver abor-
zionist has been placed under S3, 600 bonds
to appear before the Grand Jury.
The residents of Glenwood are look
ing forward to the erection OF smelters as
soon as the railroads are completed.
Five town site declaratory statements
were filed in the Lamar land Office last
week. They all had court house squares.
The Denver Club are to erect hand
some club house to cost 800 900, on the cor
ner of 18th and Glenarn streets In that
city.
Attorney General Alvin Marsh has
decided to decline the Supreme Court Com
mission ship offered him by Governor
Adams.
The Anti-Royalty bill has been rec
commended for passage by the Committee
Of the Whole Of the Senate to the Joy Of the
farmers.
The Jesuit College which was estab-
lished some time ago at Morrison is to be
removed to Colorado Springs and greatly
enlarged.
The Denver Council has passed an
ordinance providing for vote by the peo-
pie on a proposition to turn Cherry Creek at
cost of 100000.
1t has been decided by the Denver
Chamber Of Commerce to erect an Expo
sition building to cost e., 600 on block of
ground opposite their present building.
The Leadville Herald Democrat has
donned handsome new dress. 1t now has
no superior as newspaper, either typo
graphically or editorially, in the State.
Twenty-Five hundred and forty-six
entries have been made at the Lamar land Of
ticc since the beginning OF the year covering
81, 600 acres, and the fees exceed 5000.
It is estimated that the people of Col
orado pay more than e, ,0oo, 600 annually for
imported oats, corn, fruit and dairy pro-
duce, all OF which might be produced a.
home.
On the 25th l441 feet of the Hager-
man tunnel had been driven, leaving G2s
feet Of rock yet to pierce. Estimating on
the progress to date this will be finished by
June Is
Raymond & Whitcomb. the trans
continental-excursion managers are said
to have already booked 1900 tourists who
will take in the sights Of the Centennial
State this year.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail
road has leta contract for the building of
ie5 miles miles Of road from Fremont, in
Northwestern Nebraska, in n Southwestern
ly direction toward Denver.
The Denver &. Rio Grande railroad
have just issued 2s,ooo copies of very at
tractive pamphlet entitled Rhymes of the
Rockies The book gives sketches of the
as prose, while the cuts are numerous and
handsome.
Sixty wagons loaded with lum Der
and merchandise left Lamar for Spring
field on Monday morning. They paraded
the street before departing on their jour
ney. Each wagon bore placard, "For
Springfield" etc.
There is a surplus Of $35. 900 in the |
treasury OF Weld County, and the commits |
sioners do not know what to do with It. |
They are uncertain whether portion of It |
belongs to the new counties Of Logan and |
Washington, or not
Tho cast-bound business on the Dem |
yer 4 Rio Grande Railway is larger than |
has ever been known during the month Of |
March. The officials of that road find It al |
most impossible to secure sufficient num- |
ber Of sleepers to satisfy the demand.
Active efforts are now making to re-
pair the wagon road over Cottonwood pass |
to Aspen and Glenwood Springs. The road |
has been found passable and direct during |
the summer months to the points named, |
but during the early spring is simply abon,- |
Unable.
Governor Adams has appointed the
following gentlemen Commissioners Of the
Supreme Court, according to the provisions |
Of bill passed by the Legislature short |
time ago: Attorney General Marsh, ex-Sen- |
ator Rising, Of Custer County, and Hon. |
Thomas Macon, Of Fremont County.
Leuis James and Marie Wainwright |
will be at the Tabor Grand Opera House,
Denver, during the week commencing |
March 26th. Their success In tho East this |
season has been phenomenal and as they |
have always been favorites in Colorado |
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